Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-04-29
Mime. Bernhardt's Admirer.
TEE MASSACHUSETTS MAN WHO SEEKS HEX HAND IN

TEE MASSACHUSETTS MAN WHO SEEKS HER HAND I'M
AARKIAGK.
A dispatch from New York says: p Blauyelt fs
the man whom Nine. Bernhardt SAYS has been an
noying her with his attentions. He made himself
conspicuous at the theater In Boston, while the
great actress was playing an engagement In that
city. He followed her TO New York and sent sey.
eTal letters 10 her, making suggestions about her
theatrical WARDROBE, ana finalIy offered marriage
He also followed her 10 Cincinnati but returneito
New YORK the other day He is said 10 be danger
Gus, aid likely 10 get into serious trouble before
long.
Blauvelt IS described as q small man with gray
lSh eyes, dark complexion and sJubby muStache
he has habit OF talking TO himself In low tone.
he Is sLld 10 hail from Lowell, Mass, his ances-
tors having been French colOnistS, who were
driven cut OF Arcadia at the time Evangelines
people left that country. During the war Biauyelv
accumulated snug fortune In buying gold He.
started our with "a few hundred dollars ana some,
fancy goods he trdverSei through the remOte,
settlements OF Maine and New Hampshire and.
bough; gold from thu farmers getting 81 and xIO
pieces here and there. Ali the Old treasure stock
1ngS came out from their hiding-places Unon
biduEC4ts appearance, because offered such won
derful bargains. Tile rural people were in ignOr.
ance OF the value OF their gold coin until the ped
dler had sent II on To Boston and sold IL for large
tence, but Is thought 10 have dropped L consider
able portion OF his wealth within a year or two
He Is about nIty-nye years OF age
swinburne DenOunces Gladstone.
Swinburne publishes hundred-line poem de-
nOuuClng Mr.. GladstOneS Irish policy. Referring q
" Nj. Gladstone ne says:
The hoary henchman of the gang
IJft hands that never dew rain
May cleanse from GOrdon's blood again.
Grand heluts man Of the ciaTOrous crew,
The good gray recreant quakes ana weeps
Iu think that crime no longer creePs
Safe toward its end t,.at mIlrderers. too,
May die wheE mercy sleeps
A DOUBLE LYScHISG THREATESED.-A dispatch
frUIn Louisville last night says: ''Tv ruer and
Patterson, The negro asSailantS of Jenni Bowman
were brought back from Frankfort yes terCiay and
lncarcerated Ia the Jail here. Tonight there k a
large crowd on the square where T. he Jail Is To-
Gated, and IL Is asserted all sides hat the men
VIII De taken out and hung before 10 orning. The
police have Iound II necessary To ar.st about one
hundred and nifty people, mostly boys. A large
number OF these latter were paradj ng about TOW u
with small coils of rope hanging their Shout
ders. The condition OF Jennie Bowman, the un-
fortunate victim, Is much wore tonight, and
there Is hardly q hope Tor her n coyery."
AN ATR-SHIP PROPELLED BY ELEcTRIcIrY-Suc-
ceSsful experiments have been u iade at Metz Ger
many. with Eayigable balloOl !, propelled By an
says the balloon Is the Invention OF "A German en-
glneer named Welker, who for some time was en-
plOyed in America, where he perfected his dlscov-
cry The German government, the paper says, has
bought the invention, paying Tor II 100000
marks down and another 100000. which is to be
paid In inStailInentS- The speed OF the balloon
exceeds that OF a railway train, and II may be
stopped and directed at viii, moving against the
wind. Whatever truth there may be In the report
says cable dispatch, IL Is certain that the resi-.
dents OF Metz are now nightly startled by an cleo
TIC Illumination lowering at great height over
their houses.